What’s the best advice you’d give someone younger than you? – A dangerous question from the daily prompt.
Advice can be dangerous. Good advice is priceless. I’ve given a bit of advice to young people over time. I’ve worked with a lot of young people and I’ve enjoyed it. Yes, I was frustrated at times but the energy and new looks they can bring inspired me during my career.
Given the fact that most people are younger than me this is what I do most days. You’d think I’d be an expert by now. But I’m not.
So, I’ll keep it simple young people –
Never give up hope, believe in yourself, find a passion, work hard at it and love a lot.
Now here is some advice, on advice.
- Lots of people will give advice far beyond their reach.
- All advice comes from someone else’s perspective. That necessarily isn’t bad, but it might not be the best path for you.
- Consider the source of the advice.
- A lot of advice is best displayed by examples.
- If you’re giving advice to someone important to you and it isn’t received the first try, please try to find another way to impart the important information.
- Giving advice is a lot about the proper timing for the advice.
- People will give advice that was good in their day and may not apply to current times. And that isn’t intentionally bad advice, it’s just what worked for them in their time.
- Most of the time people giving advice have good intentions, but there are a few people in this world that will give bad advice intentionally. We’ll let me correct that. There are a lot of bad people in this world who will give you bad advice, but thankfully there are still more good people. But this should be a word of caution on accepting all advice.
- I’ve listened to great advice and horrible advice. Don’t beat yourself up over the bad advice and learn from it. And don’t get too cocky over the good advice, remember that came from someone else and you just used it.
